Girl Wanders

The House of Bernarda Alba

misscedar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:22:51 +0000

I am so glad to finally be done with this painting. It seemed to take me forever!

This is another one I did in my painting class. The assignment was to go see a play, (The House of Bernarda Alba) and to make a painting based upon one of the characters in the story. I wasn’t that crazy about the play, though it was a good story and I did rather like the character of Bernarda Alba, so I chose to focus on her.

This is the first painting I have completed in oils! What a change! I had been working only in acrylics for the past few years, but I really liked the oils. I plan on doing a lot more painting in them now.

My teacher also selected this as one (out of three) of the paintings from our class to be submitted in the gallery at school. I am really excited about that.

It is 20”x24”

1983

misscedar — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:53:29 +0000

A few weeks back my dad started going through all our old family albums, and paying my sister and I to start scanning the photos. I absolutely love looking at all the really old pictures.

There are not many photos from when I was a small baby, but here are a few of my favorites.

Noe’s Wedding

misscedar — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:02:59 +0000

This evening Russ and I attended our friend Noe’s wedding. It happened indoors, so my pictures turned out pretty crappy. Russ got some pictures of me all dressed up though before we went in.

I must say, I wish I had more reasons to get dressed up.

Painting Assignment: Monochrome Painting

misscedar — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:23:37 +0000

For the most recent painting assignment I completed we had to bring in an object that was meaningfull to us, and paint it in a monochromatic scheme. The first object that came to mind was this troll doll. This was my mom’s when she was a little girl, and she passed it down to me.

Drawing Class: Portraits

misscedar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:12:39 +0000

This week in my drawing class we started working on portraits. My teacher printed out a bunch of images of “heroes” and we were allowed to choose from the selection. I chose Frank Zappa.

Painting Practice

misscedar — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:12:29 +0000

Lately I have been doing small projects at home to practice painting from real objects. A few nights ago I painted this bell pepper. I accidently ate it without thinking before I could put the finishing touches on it, but it was mostly done.

Design Project: Mondrian

misscedar — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:53:20 +0000

Our most recent project in my Design class was to work with balance, and create a Mondrian inspired image.

Painting Assignment 2: White Objects

misscedar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:13:13 +0000

I just put the finishing touches on the piece I had been working on in class last week. My teacher brought in several different white objects and assigned us certain set ups based on what she thought would challenge us all individually.

I can’t wait until next week when we can actually start using color in our paintings!

Film Stuff

misscedar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:40:03 +0000

I forgot to mention in my last post that the movie I starred in a few months back was screened at the Palm Film Festival. A Canadian distribution company saw it and is interested in distributing it. Unfortunately there isn’t a trailer for it online yet (I need to talk to them about that!).

However next weekend another film I was in is being screened here in town at the San Diego film festival. This one is called Flamingo Tango. I don’t have a big role in this one, but I did quite a bit of dancing for it!

Flamingo Tango trailer

Painting Assignment 1: White Object

misscedar — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:20:16 +0000

I have been so incredibly busy with school, I have hardly had a chance to get on the computer to do much more than homework! I have such a busy schedule, I go to school from Monday to Thursday from 9 to 4 everyday. Then I get home and have to do homework. I can’t even begin to explain how horribly messy my home is right now.

This is the most recent work I completed in my painting class. The assignment was to bring in a white object and paint it using only white and black. All I could find around the house that was white were plates. I didn’t think that would make for a very interesting piece, so I went to the thrift store. I found this little owl statue, and brought it home and painted it white. I am semi pleased with how it turned out.

Everything I make turns out so cartoon-y looking! This weekend I have to finish up another black and white painting for class, so expect to see another one up in a day or two or three.

Last weekend Russ and I went with my dad over to the house that he is in the process of buying. It is out in the country, on a huge plot of land. He has a small rosemary plant right outside his front door. While we were watering we saw this monster! I have never seen a grasshopper this big in San Diego!